The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to fascist Italy of the 1930s, setting up weird geographical and chronological ...
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What to know about the darkly twisted ‘Salome,’ which is back at the Lyric Opera after two decades
Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago runs through Feb. 14.
Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...
The poster for the new production of Salome (image courtesy the theater company) Unlike the majority of Oscar Wilde’s works, his tragedy Salomé (1891) is not a crowd-pleaser. Given the subject matter ...
The story of Salome, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter You just can't keep a bad woman down. In the case of Salomé, an archetype of subversive sexuality since the first century AD, she ...
Across the centuries, the story of Salome has been staged, scored, adapted, pushed and pulled in a welter of ways, always finding new ways to shock. On Sunday, the curtain went up on Richard Strauss’s ...
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